I like reading the posts that tell me how to become more effective of a weblogger. Perhaps its more keyed to those first getting a blogger or typepad account or loading up wordpress on their webserver. But there is that first infatuation with it all and the questions come:
- Question 1: how do I get more public and get people reading my stuff?
- Question 2: how do I get even more people linking to me and saying great or even not so great things about my blogology?
- Question 3: how do I know what I know and what I don’t know?
- Question 4: do I really need to become all authoritative to be a successful blogger?
- Question 5: why do I really care at all whether someone writes their inner or outer most thoughts down in some chronological order on a daily basis?
I sit there and wonder too. Is blogging just a fad and people are just gonna wander away after the polish rubs off the apple? Does it really matter if I have feeds and RSS and atoms and molecules? What do the majority of people really expect from their blog? Do they do it to make someone else read a thing of theirs or do they do it so they can merely express themselves, escape, say stupid things?
Does any of this really matter? Well, question 3 may matter to you if things like understanding knowledge, its paradigms, its dogma matters. Hell, if you got time to worry about all them things you ain’t working at a startup. I wonder how many people that work at technology startups blog each and every day?
I wonder if more people leave blogging when they find out that by writing sincere and well published articles that never get read or linked to than those that merely write for some little known reason and in the end they accept blogging as a personal statement.
Sure we have all the nice web this and that things we can go record, track, read, understand all those guys at the front part of the comet. They already have all the authority though. So don’t come looking around here for any.
Why not just blog because you want to and not because some person may stop by someday and actually comment?
